We enjoyed designing and printing this wild floral wedding invitation. The request was for a vintage looking wild flower illustration with clean and simple typography.
Letterpress printed on our vintage Heidelberg presses onto our favourite paper at the moment, 425gsm Saunders 100% cotton paper and supplied with luxurious Zerkall envelopes. The silver and lilac ink compliment each other beautifully.
Dimensions: A5 (148 x 210mm)
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July 27th, 2010
| Category: Wedding Stationery
Tags: 100% cotton paper, cotton paper, heidelberg, invitation, letterpress, paper, printing, saunders 425gsm, wedding invitations, Wedding Stationery, wild floral |
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This TwitterTreat is now closed. The winner has been announced.
See the winning cards here.
Our new Twitter Treat is the opportunity to bag yourself 100 free letterpress business cards. We have a press sheet gap coming up and we want to give one of our followers the chance to fill it with their design.
Your business cards will be printed on our vintage printing presses onto Somerset 300gsm 100% cotton paper. The ink colour is one colour – black. You will need to provide print ready artwork as a press quality PDF with all fonts converted to outlines.
PRINT SPECIFICATION
Print area = 85 x 55mm (landscape or portrait format)
1 x Ink colour = Black
Stock = Somerset 300gsm 100% cotton, White, Rough Textured
Quantity = 100
Artwork to be supplied via email as print ready PDF with all fonts converted to outlines.
We will randomly pick the winner from our list of followers at 5pm, Thursday 8th July 2010. The winner will be notified by DM on Twitter.
Here’s what you will need to do:
STEP 1
Follow us on Twitter!
STEP 2
Retweet this tweet
SOME RULES
This TwitterTreat is now closed. The winner has been announced. See the winning cards here.
Posted:
July 5th, 2010
| Category: Twitter Treats
Tags: 100% cotton paper, black and white, cotton paper, ephemera, heidelberg, letterpress, paper, saunders 425gsm, Twitter, white |
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Illustrator Gemma Correll came to us to print a limited edition run of her highly detailed ampersand illustration. Letterpress printed on our Heidelberg presses in 2 colours onto 300gsm Somerset 100% cotton paper.
The prints are in a limited edition of 250, signed and numbered and available to purchase directly from Gemma.
Dimensions: A4 (210 x 297mm)
Illustration © Gemma Correll
Posted:
June 28th, 2010
| Category: Limited Edition Prints
Tags: 100% cotton paper, 300gsm, ampersand, black, black and white, cotton paper, gemma correll, heidelberg, illustration, letterpress, limited edition, paper, Somerset |
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Emily had seen our Chrysanthemum correspondence cards and greeting card and asked us to adapt the design to create her wedding invitation and menu card. We discussed preferred colour palettes and provided a couple of layout and colour variations for Emily’s approval. The invitations and menus are printed on heavy 425gsm 100% cotton paper in lime green and brown and were supplied with matching envelopes.
The chrysanthemum drawing is taken from an original pencil drawing by Blush’s very own Alison and was originally part of a range of greeting cards. We are often asked to adapt one of our greeting card designs into a range of wedding stationery.
Dimensions: A5 (148 x 210mm) Letterpress printed on our vintage printing presses.
Menu photo courtesy of Dandelion Gifts in Frodsham, Cheshire.
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June 17th, 2010
| Category: Wedding Stationery
Tags: 100% cotton paper, brown, cotton paper, ink, invitation, letterpress, lime green, paper, saunders 425gsm, script, typography, wedding invitations, Wedding Stationery, white |
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A beautiful combination of a swirling typeface, gold ink, cotton paper and letterpress printing resulted in this wedding stationery. Designed by Julia carefoot of Glorious Creative in Manchester and supplied by email for us to print. Julia looked into papers at the early stages of the project and had chosen a smooth board which we felt was not thick enough to enable us to achieve a deep impression on both sides of the cards. We advised Julia to go with a heavier pure cotton paper, Saunders 425gsm.
Wedding invitation, information card and a thank you card letterpress printed in gold ink on both sides of A6.
Posted:
June 15th, 2010
| Category: Wedding Stationery
Tags: 100% cotton paper, cotton paper, gold ink, invitation, letterpress, printing, saunders 425gsm, typography, wedding invitations, Wedding Stationery |
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To mark England’s first game in this years World Cup we printed the greatest score in english football history. Hand set antique wood and metal type and printed on our Vandercook proofing press in black, red and blue. The old wood type creates a beautiful deep impression into the soft pure cotton paper.
Dimensions: 375 x 275mm
Somerset Soft White 100% cotton 300gsm
The prints are £15 each with free delivery and are available to buy from our online shop. Only a limited run.
Posted:
June 12th, 2010
| Category: Hot off the press, Letterpress Ephemera, Letterpress Posters, Limited Edition Prints
Tags: 100% cotton paper, 300gsm, cotton paper, ephemera, letterpress, metal type, paper, printing, proofing press, Somerset, typography, vandercook, wood type |
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Something we are getting asked to do more and more are limited edition letterpress prints. This wonderful illustration by Dutch artist Alice Kok was a delight to print. The flowing linework created a wonderful deep impression into the paper. Alice supplied her illustration via email and we suggested suitable papers. Saunders was perfect for these prints as it would allow a deep impression without the paper warping under the extreme pressures of the press.
Dimensions: 220 x 320mm, letterpress printed onto Saunders 425gsm 100% cotton paper, Black & red ink. Illustration © copyright Alice Kok.
The prints are available to buy direct from Alice at £25 each. Each print is numbered and signed of an limited edition of 50.
Posted:
June 10th, 2010
| Category: Letterpress Ephemera, Limited Edition Prints
Tags: 100% cotton paper, cotton paper, ephemera, illustration, letterpress, limited edition print, paper, printing, saunders 425gsm |
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John Henry called on blush°° to print his business cards. We discussed which papers would be most suitable as he wanted a really deep impression. After seeing John’s artwork we recommended Saunders 425gsm. A beautiful soft white cotton paper heavier than the average business card but not too thick to take up too much room in his wallet!
Getting the right amount of ink was critical for this design. We had to have enough coverage for the block at the top of the card without over inking the finer typography at the bottom.
Dimensions: 55 x 85mm
Letterpress printed on our vintage printing presses.
Designed by John Henry Donovan Tel: +353.86.8881880
This card has been featured on Card Observer and was also Card of the Month for June on CardNerd – thanks!
Posted:
May 25th, 2010
| Category: Business Cards, Hot off the press
Tags: 100% cotton paper, cotton paper, debossed, letterpress, paper, printing, saunders 425gsm, typography, white |
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Congratulations goes out along with her print to Magic Alice, winner of our recent Twitter Treat competition. She won her name hand set with vintage wood type and letterpress printed on our 117 year old treadle powered printing press.
To be in with a chance of entering our next Twitter Treat make sure you follow us on Twitter! Our next Twitter Treat will be announced shortly…
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May 6th, 2010
| Category: Letterpress Ephemera, Twitter Treats
Tags: cotton paper, ephemera, follower, freebie, handset type, letterpress, movable type, paper, printing, tweets, Twitter, wood type |
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Here’s a sneak peek at one of our new ranges of letterpress wedding stationery ~ Reynolds.
The bride and grooms names are rendered in a beautiful script typeface adorned with swirling glyphs making this a truly personalised piece. Careful and considered typography are the true elements of this design.
Letterpress printed on our vintage printing presses onto a luxurious 300gsm, 100% cotton paper. The soft nature of this paper allows a deep impression creating an irresistible tactile finish. The invitations are accompanied with matching unlined envelopes which have a soft deckled edge on the flaps. Optional extras include envelope lining, return address and a version of the bride and grooms names printed on the envelope flap.
Posted:
April 29th, 2010
| Category: Hot off the press, Wedding Stationery
Tags: 100% cotton paper, black and white, cotton paper, invitation, letterpress, paper, printing, script, serif, typography, wedding invitations, Wedding Stationery, white |
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Whenever we get the urge we treat our Twitter followers by randomly selecting one lucky follower to receive letterpress goodies – absolutely free!
Our latest Twitter Treat is another chance to win “your name in print”. Your name will be handset with old wood type and printed on our 117 year old treadle powered printing press onto 300gsm 100% cotton paper. You can even choose the ink colour! The image above shows our previous winner.
We will randomly pick the winner from our list of followers at 5pm, Friday 23 April 2010. The winner will be notified by DM on Twitter.
So to be in with a chance of winning, here’s what you need to do:
STEP 1
Follow us on Twitter!
STEP 2
Retweet this tweet
THIS COMPETITION IS NOW CLOSED and the winner has been announced. Thank you to all who entered and don’t forget to watch this space for the next Twitter Treat!
Posted:
April 20th, 2010
| Category: Twitter Treats
Tags: 100% cotton paper, cotton paper, ephemera, free, freebie, handset type, letterpress, movable type, paper, printing, tweets, Twitter, typography, wood type |
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We recently printed this gorgeous wedding invitation. Letterpress printed onto 638gsm pure cotton board both sides, 3 colours front, 2 colours on the back. A6 postcard with a summer bunting theme designed by our customer.
Shelley took inspiration from vintage pattern and summer themes and got to work in her sketchbooks. Her drawings were scanned into the computer and “tidied up” in Photoshop. Then she added old typewriter and carnival style fonts into the mix and came up with a design full of nostalgia. You can read more on how Shelley created her design on her blog.
Shelley emailed her artwork to us and we got to work. We colour matched the inks to Pantone refs and a print out from her computer as it had the tone of colour she liked. Considering the weight of board used the job ran smoothly. First we printed the fuchsia and grey, front and back and finally the green on the front then trimmed to size. Packed and dispatched before the weekend for Shelley to start sending out.
Posted:
March 31st, 2010
| Category: Wedding Stationery
Tags: cotton paper, ephemera, letterpress, paper, printing, saunders 638gsm, wedding invitations, Wedding Stationery |
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Fresh off the press is our new greeting card catalogue.
Printed onto 100% cotton paper, A5 4pp. We have used wood type and printed 1 character at a time. If you would like a copy please contact us. Trade customers only please!
Posted:
March 26th, 2010
| Category: Hot off the press
Tags: catalogue, cotton paper, greeting cards, heidelberg, letterpress, paper, printing, wood type |
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On the press this morning – this single colour letterpress wedding invitation. Elegant script and uppercase serif typography centered on the board to create a beautifully simple invitation. The back of the invitations were printed with a full bleed flock pattern.
Size A5 (148 x 210mm) Printed on Cranes Lettra 600gsm 100% cotton. Designed by our customer.
Posted:
February 16th, 2010
| Category: Hot off the press
Tags: black and white, cotton paper, cranes, ephemera, heidelberg, letterpress, lettra, paper, pattern, typography, wedding invitations, Wedding Stationery |
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To celebrate reaching our 100th follower we are giving our followers to chance to win their name in print. Our 100th follower will win their name set in old wood type and letterpress printed in a colour of their choice onto 100% cotton paper (as shown above). This prize will be a one-off unique print, personalised for the winner.
To be in with a chance simply follow us on Twitter!
And the winner is…
Posted:
February 16th, 2010
| Category: Twitter Treats
Tags: cotton paper, follower, free, handset type, heidelberg, letterpress, movable type, printing, Twitter, typography, wood type |
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Just off the press is this afternoon is this fuchsia and gold letterpress wedding invitation. Our client had a theme in mind for her English & Indian wedding and she had a definite look she wanted to achieve and wanted in include the Ganesh symbol on the front of the invitation.
We discussed ink colours and papers to compliment the theme. Printed on a 300gsm neutral white cotton paper in fuchsia and gold ink.
Posted:
February 16th, 2010
| Category: Hot off the press
Tags: cotton paper, elephants, gold ink, indian theme, letterpress, ohm, paper, pattern, printing, typography, wedding invitations, Wedding Stationery |
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Posted:
February 10th, 2010
| Category: On the press today
Tags: baskerville, cotton paper, ephemera, handset type, letterpress, metal type, movable type, paper, printing, typography |
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